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Nominated for eleven Tony Awards, winning ten. Beauty and the Beast: 1994 Alan Menken: Howard Ashman, Tim Rice: Linda Woolverton: 1998: Big River: 1984 Roger Miller: Miller William Hauptman: 1985: Nominated for ten Tony Awards, winning seven. Billy Elliot the Musical: 2005 Elton John: Lee Hall: Hall 2009: 2006: Nominated for fifteen Tony Awards ...
The Tony Award for Best Musical is given annually to the best new Broadway musical, as determined by Tony Award voters. The award is one of the ceremony's longest-standing awards, having been presented each year since 1949. The award goes to the producers of the winning musical. A musical is eligible for consideration in a given year if it has ...
Rent (stylized in all caps) is a rock musical with music, lyrics, and book by Jonathan Larson. [1] Loosely based on the 1896 opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa, it tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City ...
Nominated for six Tony Awards, winning three. Racing Demon: 1990 David Hare: 1990: The Real Thing: 1982 Tom Stoppard: 1984: Nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning five. Red: 2009 John Logan: 2010: Nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning six. Red Noses: 1985 Peter Barnes: 1985: The River Niger: 1972 Joseph A. Walker: 1974: Nominated for three ...
Awards. Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music. Come from Away is a musical, with book, music and lyrics by Irene Sankoff and David Hein. It is based on the events in the Newfoundland town ...
Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical. Tootsie is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by David Yazbek and a book by Robert Horn. The musical is based on the 1982 American comedy film of the same name written by Larry Gelbart, Barry Levinson (uncredited), Elaine May (uncredited) and Murray Schisgal from the story by Gelbart and Don McGuire.
Glen Kelly was the musical arranger and supervisor. [1] [2] The production won 12 Tony Awards, breaking the record held for 37 years by Hello, Dolly! which had won 10. [13] After the opening, The Producers broke the record for the largest single day box-office ticket sales in theatre history, taking in more than $3 million. [14]
The Tony Awards are the New York theatre industry's equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Grammy Awards for music, and the Academy Awards (Oscars) for film, and a person who has won all four is said to have won the EGOT. The Tony Awards are the U.S. equivalent of the United Kingdom 's Laurence Olivier Awards and France 's Molière ...